Summer's ALMOST Here

Hiring Event [Job Fair] Number 2!

thank you, brown mackie college! 

Elisa and I were the only Express reps onsite today, among many other local employers and potential employees. In the midst of the hustle and bustle, Elisa and I determined that these events are definitely the best way to both take a breather from the daily routine, as well as capitalize on marketing and recruiting opportunities!

express onsite - day 2! 

Elisa and I are only so creative on days like this, but when the routine we hammered out is ideal the way it is, there's really no reason to reinvent the wheel.

So that meant day 2 of Coffee Emporium, followed by Ault Park, but this time we were able to track down two trees that were ideal for hammocking! [YIIEEEE!]

I convinced Elisa to try mine out, as she's recently expressed interest in buying one of her own. She loved it!

elisa!!!! i think she's been sold! 

We eventually traded spots; I switched out my yoga mat for my hammock, and spent the rest of our mini break accepting my favorite kind of beauty: the simple kind.

ault park

Summer's almost upon us! I picked up Sydni after work today, after her final field trip of the year.

she's ready for summer, too... clearly .. haha

It's been a relaxing evening at home, which is just what we've all needed at the midpoint of this week. Summer is within reach; I can feel it!

xo | cmd

Wednesday - OWN IT!

It's... JOB FAIR season! I scheduled our first two bigger events of the season for today and tomorrow; we loaded up our gear yesterday to prepare for today and headed off in full Express thunder to see where the day would take us.

First things first though: Let me just say that any day that starts like this... is guaranteed to be a fruitful day, regardless of whether or not we're out hiring:

.... a few of my favorite things!

^ I love that, over and over again!

Sooo... yeah, there was the job fair. It's the first of two that Elisa and I have scheduled this week, and I have to say that it went very well! We even stumbled across Kelly, from the Eastgate office - coincidentally one of my former colleagues from the Days of OLD... aka Clearchannel [that's a different story.. haha]

express cinci central | express eastgate

It's not often that we get out of the office for hours at a time, but it's a fun change of pace, especially when the halls are buzzing with potential candidates and business partners!

fun at our hiring event! 

The job fair came to an end, allowing us a small window to take lunch and whatever else happened to accompany that.

Therefore,
Stop #1: Coffee Emporium.
Stop #2: Ault Park:

catching some sunshine!!
ault park | cincinnati, oh 

We returned to the office and finished off the day before parting ways for the evening. I thought it fitting to continue the evening in like fashion, in the gap between work and volleyball:

sideyard hammocking! 

After a few hours, it was time to head to volleyball [by a few hours, I mean 10:20 PM, *le sighhhhh]. It was tournament week, so we plowed through our games at the back-to-back pace that comes with tourney weeks.

We played, we played and played some more, and a few hours later, we stood as league champs! Given that we're a 4C team in a 6D league, I probably wouldn't have predicted this to go any other way, but it was still a blast getting back into the structured league play of Grand Sands, and I'm proud of my quad team.

Yay, team!

martin. cori. beth. paul
league champs!

It is LATE. I am tiiiiiired, and it's an early day tomorrow. See you then!

xo | cmd

July 4th!

Happy BIRTHDAY, USA!!!

happy independence day!!

This is the official start of being off work for six regularly-scheduled work days! Sydni woke up talking about fireworks, rather disappointed that she had to wait aaaaaallllll day looooong to see them ;). Hahh.. To appease her, we took a little family trip up to Ault Park for a day of romping on the playground before making a stop at my office [yes, on my day off, go figure!] to make a copy of our passports, in the unlikely event we lose them overseas. We're hoping not, but as a preventative measure, we're pretty determined to come back after this trip ;)

family time! ♥

new buggy friends at the park ;)

So there was that, and then back home for a quick nap and decision on plans for the evening. Kalyn ended up joining us; we stopped off at Flip Daddy's for dinner and made our way back to Ault Park, where we set up camp on the lawn and waited for the fireworks.

girl time!

by day...

... and by night!

Tonight was a success, all the way around. We'll definitely be back next year, unless we find something else more enticing than a laid back vibe for the big show. Happy birthday, 'Merica. We love ya!

fireworks time!

Let the weekend BEGIN!

xo | cmd